The World Health Organization estimates that cardiovascular disease killed seventeen and a half million people in two thousand five.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

The researchers disagree with the World Health Organization which says blindness and other vision problems are the leading cause.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

The World Health Organization says more than one billion people live in areas where renewable water resources are not available.

VOA: special.2010.04.05

The World Health Organization, the United Nations health agency, uses a system of six phases to warn of possible influenza pandemics.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

The World Health Organization says hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are affected by mental,behavioral,neurological or substance use disorders.

VOA: special.2010.04.13

The World Health Organization says the problem with counterfeit medicines is especially bad in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

VOA: special.2010.02.22

But close to half a million confirmed cases were reported to the World Health Organization as of November first.

VOA: special.2009.11.11

The World Health Organization says up to thirty percent of the medicine sold in many developing countries is not real.

VOA: special.2010.03.01

The World Health Organization says the United States has forty-one births for every one thousand girls age fifteen to nineteen.

VOA: special.2010.05.13

The World Health Organization has predicted that the virus will infect at least two billion people in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.08.18

And,the World Health Organization says asthma rates are increasing worldwide by an average of fifty percent every ten years.

VOA: special.2009.07.28

The World Health Organization says one in three women around the world will experience some form of violence in their lifetime.

VOA: special.2009.10.24

The World Health Organization says Africa is behind other parts of the world in treating H.I.V./AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria.

VOA: special.2009.06.17

The World Health Organization says mosquitoes carry organisms that cause disease and death for millions of people throughout the world.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The World Health Organization says alcohol abuse is the third leading cause of death and disability in the world.

VOA: special.2011.03.08

The World Health Organization is warning the public not to use potassium iodide unless health officials advise them to.

VOA: special.2011.03.30

The World Health Organization estimates that more than three billion people live in areas where malaria is a threat.

VOA: special.2010.04.20

His group and the World Health Organization recently published a report called "The Global and Regional Toll of Preterm Birth."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

The World Health Organization this week declared the first pandemic, or worldwide spread, of influenza in forty-one years.

VOA: special.2009.06.13

The World Health Organization estimates that more than two hundred million people have been found to have COPD.

VOA: special.2010.06.23

The World Health Organization says tobacco kills nearly five and a half million people a year -- another victim every six seconds.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

Last year,for the first time, the World Health Organization added snakebites to its list of "neglected tropical diseases."

VOA: special.2010.01.25

Shekhar Saxena is director of the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse at the World Health Organization.

VOA: special.2011.02.16

The World Health Organization says there are an estimated two hundred thousand cases of the disease and thirty thousand deaths each year.

VOA: special.2009.05.26

The World Health Organization says passengers who sit still for four or more hours face a greater risk of developing blood clots.

VOA: special.2009.07.14

To others,they are enemies of the public health in a time of what the World Health Organization calls a "global obesity epidemic."

VOA: special.2010.04.12

The World Health Organization has predicted that the H1N1 virus will infect at least two billion people in the next two years.

VOA: special.2009.08.05

Rod Curtis at the World Health Organization in Geneva says the new bivalent vaccine solves this problem.

VOA: special.2010.01.18